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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2006
Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Charles W. Cross, Jr., Wellington, FL (US);
David Jaramillo, Lake Worth, FL (US);
Yan LI, Boynton Beach, FL (US);
Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Charles W. Cross, Jr., Wellington, FL (US);
David Jaramillo, Lake Worth, FL (US);
Yan Li, Boynton Beach, FL (US);
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Dynamically generating a vocal help prompt in a multimodal application that include detecting a help-triggering event for an input element of a VoiceXML dialog, where the detecting is implemented with a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal application is operatively coupled to a VoiceXML interpreter, and the multimodal application has no static help text. Dynamically generating a vocal help prompt in a multimodal application according to embodiments of the present invention typically also includes retrieving, by the VoiceXML interpreter from a source of help text, help text for an element of a speech recognition grammar, forming by the VoiceXML interpreter the help text into a vocal help prompt, and presenting by the multimodal application the vocal help prompt through a computer user interface to a user.